Pay It Forwards

“Pay it forward” is not only a movie but also a thinking of little boy which talks about Trevor’s life and his assignment. Trevor is eleven years old, in seventh grade, and studying in social studies. He lives with his mom who is an alcoholic, has two jobs. On the first day at school, his professor, Mr. Simonet gives his class an extra credit assignment for the year. Mr. Simonet asks the class, “What does the world want from you?” Trevor answers, “Nothing.” Mr. Simonet replies, “You are absolutely right, you are in seventh grade you can’t drive, can’t vote, heck you can’t even go to the bathroom without a pass from me, but not forever, one day you will be free.” He continues, “But what if on that day your free, you haven’t prepared you are not ready and then you look around and you don’t like what the world is. What if the world is just a big disappointment?” One of the kids in the class replies, “We’re screwed!” Mr. Simonet says, “Unless, you take the things you don’t like about this world and you flip them upside down on their ass. You can start that today. This is your assignment extra credit it goes on all year long.” On the board written in chalk it says: Think of an idea to change our world and put it into Action! Everyone in the class complains about how weird, strange, and hard it is. Mr. Simonet then very slowly replies, “How about possible, it’s possible. The realm of possibility exists in each of you. So you can do it or you can just sit back and let it atrophy.” On the way Trevor comes back home. He saw some homeless, and he thinks about his assignment. He got it. The idea is “pay it forward”. He chose someone who needs help. He made an operation by he will help three people and these three people will help nine people, more and more like that. The world will change. The first person whom he wants to help is the homeless man who is a heroin addict. He invited Jerry come to home, had meal, let this guy to sleep in his garage, and take a shower in his bathroom. They are become friend. But after that, Trevor dropped Jerry out of his target because Jerry is continued to use heroin and he went away of Trevor. But at close to the end of movie, on the way he moves to live at another place. Jerry helped a woman who wants to suicidal. The second person whom he wants to help is Mr. Simonet. He wants to the relationship between Mr. Simonet and his mom to be better. Mr. Somonet has a scaring face, was beaten and burned by his father to protect his mother. The third person whom he wants to help is a young boy. He wants to help this boy who always scares two other boys. I really like Trevor acting. He worried about his mom very much. He does not want his mom living with his father who is an alcoholic, too. He wants to his mom to come with Mr. Simonet. Trevor face contains feeling of sadness. However, I think he would cry but he didn’t like when he bickered with his mom, and she hit Trevor face or when his father comes and he worry about that which can let his mom and his life will not better. He is eleven years old, but his thinking is always better than other ones. As the first day at school, he was a very good student like having good answers from hard question. He believes that the world is nothing with him. He can change the world but the world cannot change him. I think this is the main idea of this movie. It means, if we prepare everything, and do everything before. The world cannot do anything on us. The world affected from us. If we can do an operation like Trevor, the world is nothing. At the end of this movie, Trevor died while he was helping the young boy. In my opinion, the end is not having a happy ending. Trevor does a lot of things to help people, but he died. Trevor was successful on his assignment like some reporter comes to interview him, and a lot of people liked this show.